![]() Elementary School in DC’s Congress Heights neighborhood. Louis with a degree in African and African American studies.Ģ007: Joined Teach for America (TFA), serving as a third-grade instructor at Martin Luther King, Jr. I was very proud of myself.”Ģ006: Graduated from Washington University in St. “I only held that high note at the very end one time in three performances. ![]() (Education Through Conversation) as an eighth grader at John Burroughs School, hosting biannual diversity symposia.Ģ001: Sang “Bless the Lord” in the school’s production of Godspell. My parents wanted me to understand the way of the world and to be clear-eyed about it.”ġ997: Started Diversity, Etc. “I was raised to be a race-conscious child. “That’s my mom’s hometown, so she was really ready to go.”ġ995: Protested the lack of a Black Santa Claus at the Saint Louis Galleria. Louis when her father was called to serve as pastor of Central Baptist Church. “I run toward these fights.”ġ985: Moved to St. Guided by faith and fortitude, Packnett Cunningham has emerged as one of the most influential voices calling for racial justice and equity in this country. “I got from both of them a grassroots and grasstops understanding of what it means to drive change,” she says-lessons that have informed her own career as an educator, organizer, and activist. Louis Public Schools students with her social worker mother and sitting in on Black liberation theology classes taught by her father at Washington University. I have to say I don’t know how to get your response.As a child, Brittany Packnett Cunningham, SOE/MAT ’09, often tagged along with her parents to work: visiting the homes of St. You always are so precise and break it down to where it supposed to be. I always tell my friends there goes my girl Brittany. I enjoy listening to your podcast, watching you on MSNBC. ![]() Or do a segment on finding African American doctors in one’s area city. Possible can you guide me in the right direction. I’ve been on this search for over a year & half. I’ve asked friends to help me to find African Americans doctors, I have not been successful. I wanted to get a African American G P, as well a, GYN African American women. I’ve experienced racism in the medical community. I spoke with my cardiologists, she stated that there are test that are racially discriminated against. When I asked the pulmonologist way the results came out this was he had no answer. So I said African American, & he was right the results showed normal. I need to remind you, I already have a test multiple test that says I have abdominal lung function. ![]() But if he put down I was African American, the test would say I had no problems. Tech asked me want was my race, I’m think what! He exo if he put down my race as white, the test would should I have a problem. So unfortunately I put the pulmonary problems to the side. I had a test 5 years ago it was abdominal. I went to see a pulmonologist, having problems with my lungs. I live in Southern Califorina, I’m a African American women 65 years young.
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